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Qt For Tizen Update Does Qt 5.2 Alpha, Wayland Happy

Phoronix: Qt For Tizen Update Does Qt 5.2 Alpha, Wayland Happy

The open-source project aiming to bring the Qt tool-kit to the mobile Tizen Linux platform has now graduated to being a 1.0 Alpha 4 candidate. With this new development release, Qt for Tizen is powered by the latest Qt 5.2 Alpha build...

So, raise of hands- anyone outside of Intel and Samsung planning to use Tizen? I'm honestly surprised the project is under the Linux Foundation's umbrella considering its lack of suitability, but I guess it's nice to have some official mobile project throwing money at the organization.

Just not sure what Tizen has that Firefox OS or Mer don't offer. Then again, perhaps I'm merely unaware of what's driving software adoption in other areas of the world. Samsung's endorsement may be all Tizen needs to succeed. And well, a little Qt never hurt anyone.

So, raise of hands- anyone outside of Intel and Samsung planning to use Tizen? I'm honestly surprised the project is under the Linux Foundation's umbrella considering its lack of suitability, but I guess it's nice to have some official mobile project throwing money at the organization.

Just not sure what Tizen has that Firefox OS or Mer don't offer. Then again, perhaps I'm merely unaware of what's driving software adoption in other areas of the world. Samsung's endorsement may be all Tizen needs to succeed. And well, a little Qt never hurt anyone.

Tizen is going to run on mobile, IVI and as a desktop/laptop OS. Intel has expressed plans to release Tizen-based x86 ultrabooks, and there are also reportedly some smaller companies planning on using Tizen in their products.

What Tizen offers that FF/Mer don't is that it's going to be more than just a mobile OS. Frankly I don't really care that much about the mobile version of Tizen, but the desktop/laptop version seems very interesting - it's supposed to use Gnome shell on Wayland and rpm packages. In other words, it's very much like a standard Linux distro, it should be able to run all regular Linux software, and it might finally bring desktop Linux to the reach of the average consumers. Tizen laptops in actual consumer electronics stores... laptops that come preloaded with Linux and Wayland. That's an exciting possibility.

And who are you? A bot denying bad things that have come of prior assigning. Like when f...ing Oracle took over SUN and turned open source against its contributors.

You forgot the part where the contributors just jumped the shipped and worked on forks instead. Because that is what can happen on open source projects, regardless if there is a CA/CLA or not. But of course you don't mention that, it wouldn't fit nice into your argumentation.